Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television: A Collection of Previously Published Essays

by Chuck Klosterman

From Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs; Chuck Klosterman IV; and Eating the Dinosaur, these essays are now available in this ebook collection for fans of Klosterman’s writing on film and television.

Genres: Nonfiction, Pop Culture, Sociology, Essays, Science, Film, Ebooks

156 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 11, 2010

About the author

Charles John Klosterman is an American author and essayist whose work focuses on American popular culture. He has been a columnist for Esquire and ESPN.com and wrote "The Ethicist" column for The New York Times Magazine. Klosterman is the author of twelve books, including two novels and the essay collection Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto. He was awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor award for music criticism in 2002.

Reviews

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great (but somewhat dated) collection of essays. Especially enjoyed the Val Kilmer interview and the time travel chapters.

[Aldrin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hilarantes análisis de varios tópicos que tiene que ver con los medios masivos TV y CINE.
Me encanto e interesó lo que escribe de Woddy Allen, la entrevista que le hace a Val Kilmer es una joya y de risa el maratón de VH1. Finalizando con sus análisis de películas que la trama principal es el viaje en el tiempo, hermoso. Ahora tengo que ver Primer.

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[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

The writing is strong, CKs always is, but some of the subjects are so ephemeral, so niche, or so trite as to be unreadable, or, even worse, uninteresting.

[Brandt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Might be better for people about 5-10 years older than me, with references to Zach Morris, Sid and Nancy, The Real World and other circa 1990 pop culture icons. Not bad, especially his thorough reaming of Coldplay, but his obscure references cause me to constantly have either Google or Wikipedia open.

2nd half is awesome - especially his thoughts on America as a world power and his final entry (no spoiler). Recommended.

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some really interesting insights, especially about how as less television is watched, advertising decreases until there will be no money for the production of shows and everything will be online.

[Joanna b · Rating 3 out of 5]

The good bits are interesting, but the occasions where he's kind of a dick are annoying and made me feel bad for the times I lolled irl. I am conflicted.

[Jason Tham · Rating 4 out of 5]

most of these essays appear in sex drug and cocoa puffs. they are still hilarious and thought provoking

[Adam · Rating 5 out of 5]

So intuitive, smart and utterly hilarious

[Thatmg · Rating 5 out of 5]

fun.

[Marshall Richard · Rating 3 out of 5]

it was all right. He really seems to hate things that I like.